Quotes with regime

  • Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
  • I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bill Moyers America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no rĂ©gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Jean Rostand I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • A. N. Wilson I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Garry Kasparov It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Ban Ki-moon My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barack Obama Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Demick One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bob Simon Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
    A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Amiel There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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